Horizon: Zero Dawn is a Model for AAA Innovation

“If you were to break down Horizon: Zero Dawn into a list of gameplay, presentation, and narrative features, it would look like one of the most generic modern big-budget AAA video games in existence. It is chock-full of so many well-tread ideas from Far Cry, The Witcher, Mass Effect, and every crafting game ever on Steam, that it took me a good ten hours of gameplay before my initial bitter disappointment wore off and I began to see H:ZD’s value. Not only is H:ZD a fine game in its own right, but it stands as a prime example of exactly what AAA developers should be doing with their boatloads of money and manpower.”